bad lands
Noun
Meaning
Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by caons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
badlands
bad state
poor lands
dangerous lands
terrible lands
wrong lands
ill-fated lands
poor country
evil lands